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Depersonalisation Definition & Meaning

depersonalisation
noun
  1. emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own personal reality accompanied by feelings of unreality and strangeness
  2. (existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in an impersonal social machine
  3. representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality; "according to Marx, treating labor as a commodity exemplified the reification of the individual"

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What does depersonalisation mean?
emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own personal reality accompanied by feelings of unreality and strangeness (existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in an impersonal social machine representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality; "according to Marx, treating labor as a commodity exemplified the reification of the individual"
What part of speech is depersonalisation?
Depersonalisation is a noun.
How many definitions does depersonalisation have?
Depersonalisation has 3 definitions across 1 part of speech (noun).

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